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Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Micaria

Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831)

Rank: Species
Status: accepted
Described:
Last updated: 2024-12-01

LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027562]
Distribution: USA, Canada, Europe, Georgia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Japan, Turkey?, Iran?, Central Asia?

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Type deposit provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; f (22164) of Micaria montana (Muster & Michalik, 2020)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m of Micaria perfecta (Muster & Michalik, 2020)
Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 1m 2f 2j (21447) of Micaria gentilis (Muster & Michalik, 2020)

Taxonomic references

Clubiona pulicaria Sundevall, 1831: 33, 1832: 140 (Dmf).
Drassus nitens Blackwall, 1833: 439 (Dmf).
Macaria nitens C. L. Koch, 1839a: 91, f. 497 (Df; probably Micaria micans per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Macaria formosa C. L. Koch, 1839a: 97, f. 501 (Df).
Drassus formosus Walckenaer, 1841: 488 (D; uncertain per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria pulicaria Westring, 1851: 47 (S of Macaria formosa).
Drassus nitens Blackwall, 1861a: 119, pl. 6, f. 73 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria L. Koch, 1866: 62, pl. 3, f. 44-46 (mf).
Macaria formosa Ohlert, 1867: 104 (Dmf).
Micaria pulicaria Thorell, 1871a: 173.
Micaria nitens Menge, 1873: 327, pl. 58, f. 187 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Hansen, 1882: 56, pl. 4, f. 3 (mf; uncertain per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria montana Emerton, 1890: 168, pl. 3, f. 2 (Df).
Micaria pulicaria Becker, 1896: 238, pl. 16, f. 1 (mf; uncertain per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria gentilis Banks, 1896a: 62 (Dmf).
Micaria perfecta Banks, 1896e: 59 (Dm).
Micaria pulicaria Bösenberg, 1902: 285, pl. 27, f. 417 (mf; uncertain per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria gentilis Emerton, 1909: 215, pl. 10, f. 3 (mf).
Micaria montana Chickering, 1939: 76, f. 72-75 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Palmgren, 1943: 67, f. 69, 75F (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Tullgren, 1946: 62, f. 19, pl. 10, f. 126-128 (f; the other figs belong to M. micans).
Micaria montana Kaston, 1948: 401, f. 1437-1439, 1441-1442 (mf).
Micaria vandeli Denis, 1950b: 83, f. 7-8 (m; misidentified per Wunderlich, 1980h: 272).
Micaria pulicaria Locket & Millidge, 1951: 119 (parts of text only, figs belong to M. micans).
Micaria pulicaria Hackman, 1954: 9 (S of Micaria gentilis and M. montana).
Micaria pulicaria Johannessen, 1968: 38, f. 1B (f).
Micaria pulicaria Tystshenko, 1971: 137, f. 351 (m; uncertain per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria nivosa Wozny, 1973: 53, f. 1 (f; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria pulicaria Wunderlich, 1980h: 252, f. 3c, 38c (f; the other figs belong to M. micans).
Micaria pulicaria Roberts, 1985: 78, f. 29a (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Yaginuma, 1986a: 193, f. 108.2 (m).
Micaria pulicaria Platnick & Shadab, 1988: 7, f. 2-5 (mf, S of Micaria perfecta).
Micaria pulicaria Platnick & Dondale, 1992: 32, f. 24-27 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Noordam, 1992: f. 15 ad part (mf; partly belong to M. micans per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria pulicaria Kamura, 1992a: 17, f. 1-4 (m).
Micaria pulicaria Roberts, 1995: 121, text fig., pl. 5, fig. 2 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Roberts, 1998: 128, text fig., pl. 5, fig. 2 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 453, f. 264F, Q (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 79, f. 694-696 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004: 181, f. 107A-D (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Almquist, 2007: 438, f. 378c, ?d-e (the other figs belong to M. micans).
Micaria pulicaria Tuneva, 2007: 239, f. 1, 64-66 (m; the other figs belong to M. micans).
Micaria blicki Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008: 229, f. 75-85, 87-90 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042047].
Micaria pulicaria Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008: 229, f. 96-98, 105-107 (f; the other figs belong to M. micans).
Micaria pulicaria Kamura, 2009: 499, f. 193-196 (mf).
Micaria pulicaria Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1: 2, f. 2d-f, 3e-h, 4d-f (mf, S of Micaria blicki, Micaria micans removed from S).
Micaria pulicaria Dolejš, 2020: 14, 1 f. (m).
Micaria pulicaria Gallon, 2021: 7, f. 1, 3 (f).
Micaria pulicaria Nolan, 2021: 57, pl. 1-2 (m).
Micaria pulicaria Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2023: 52, f. 4-5, 8, 11-12, 15-16 (mf).

References

Almquist, S. (2007). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601. [publ. in 2007 per Jonsson, in litt.] -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1896a). A few new spiders. The Canadian Entomologist 28(3): 62-65. doi:10.4039/Ent2862-3 -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1896e). New North American spiders and mites. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 23: 57-77. -- Show included taxa

Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721 -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1833). Characters of some undescribed genera and species of Araneidae. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (3) 3(14, 15, 17, 18): 104-112, 187-197, 344-352, 436-443. , 10.1080/14786443308648155, 10.1080/14786443308648198, 10.1080/14786443308648224 doi:10.1080/14786443308648135 -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1861a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. [Part I]. Ray Society, London, pp. 1-174, pl. 1-12. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.143674 -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1939). Anyphaenidae and Clubionidae of Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 24: 49-84. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1950b). Araignées de la région d'Orédon (Hautes-Pyrénées). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 85: 77-113. -- Show included taxa

Dolejš, P. (2020). Revize materiálu Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) ve sbírkách Národního muzea v Praze [Revision of Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in the collection of National Museum, Prague]. Pavouk 49: 14-16. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1890). New England spiders of the families Drassidae, Agalenidae and Dysderidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 166-206, pl. 3-8. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1909). Supplement to the New England Spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 14: 171-236. -- Show included taxa

Gallon, R. C. (2021). Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858) and Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831) sensu stricto in North Wales with notes on their identification. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 150: 7-8. -- Show included taxa

Hackman, W. (1954). The spiders of Newfoundland. Acta Zoologica Fennica 79: 1-99. -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H. J. (1882). Spindeldyr. In: Schiödte, J. C. (ed.) Zoologia Danica. Kjöbenhavn 3, 1-81, I-V. -- Show included taxa

Johannessen, O. H. (1968). Micaria decorata Tullgren 1942 (Clubionidae, Araneae) new to Norway. Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift 15: 37-39. -- Show included taxa

Kamura, T. (1992a). Notes on Japanese gnaphosid spiders (V). Three rare species in Japan. Atypus 100: 17-22. -- Show included taxa

Kamura, T. (2009). Trochanteriidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae, Corinnidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 482-500, 551-557. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 125-158, pl. 175-180 (f. 418-431); Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540); Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106, pl. 217-246 (f. 541-584). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304. -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Nadolny, A. A. (2008). The spider genus Micaria Westring, 1851 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 16: 215-236. -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1873). Preussische Spinnen. VI. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 3: 327-374. -- Show included taxa

Muster, C. & Michalik, P. (2020). Cryptic diversity in ant‐mimic Micaria spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and a tribute to early naturalists. Zoologica Scripta 49(2): 197-209 & Appendices. doi:10.1111/zsc.12404 -- Show included taxa

Nolan, M. (2021). First Irish record of Micaria micans (Blackwall) (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and revalidation of Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall). Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 45: 56-61. -- Show included taxa

Noordam, A. (1992). Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of the Netherlands, drawings, some notes, and some thoughts about ant-mimicry. Published by the author, Leiden, Netherlands, viii & 16 pp. -- Show included taxa

Ohlert, E. (1867). Die Araneiden oder echten Spinnen der Provinz Preussen. Leipzig, pp. 1-172. -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1943). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands II. Acta Zoologica Fennica 36: 1-115. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. (1988). A revision of the American spiders of the genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 2916: 1-64. -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Dondale, C. D. (1992). The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication 1875: 1-297. -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Prokopenko, E. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2023). Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858) and M. pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831) (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) in the southeast of the Russian Plain and the Russian Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19(1): 49-56. doi:10.23885/181433262023191-4956 -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, F. (2004). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 39: Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae. Science Press, Beijing, 362 pp. -- Show included taxa

Sundevall, C. J. (1831). Svenska Spindlarnes Beskrifning. Fortsättning. Separate, published by P. A. Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, pp. 1-41. [journal version publ. in 1832, see Blick & Kronestedt, 2000 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1871a). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 97-228. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1946). Svensk spindelfauna: 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Entomologiska Föreningen, Stockholm, 141 pp., pl. 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Tuneva, T. K. (2007). Review of the family Gnaphosidae in the Ural fauna (Aranei). 5. Genera Micaria Westring, 1851 and Arboricaria Bosmans, 2000. Arthropoda Selecta 15(3, 2006): 229-250. [publ. July 16, 2007] -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa

Westring, N. (1851). Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 2: 25-62. -- Show included taxa

Woźny, M. (1973). New data on the female of the spider Micaria nivosa L. Koch (Gnaphosidae). Przegląd Zoologiczny 17: 53-54. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1980h). Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Micaria Westring 1851, mit Anmerkungen zu den übrigen paläarktischen Arten (Arachnida: Araneida: Gnaphosidae). Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 25(1979): 233-341. -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. -- Show included taxa

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Edit history

Date	Type	Reference	Detail
2023-03-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2023	n/a
2022-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Nolan, 2021	n/a
2021-05-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Dolejš, 2020	n/a
2021-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Gallon, 2021	n/a
2020-11-02	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2020	n/a (Old value)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		n/a (Old value)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria lugubris (Walckenaer, 1837)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria lugubris (Walckenaer, 1837)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria corusca (C. L. Koch, 1837)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)
2020-02-12	Species distribution update	Muster & Michalik, 2020	n/a (Old value)
2020-02-12	Species synonymy	Muster & Michalik, 2020	Micaria blicki synonymized with Micaria pulicaria
2020-02-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Muster & Michalik, 2020	n/a